| Folding, Faulting, and Fracturing of Deep Water Turbidite Deposits in the Magallanes Foreland
Basin, Chilean Patagonia | |
| Personnel: A. Aydin and Joe Gonzales Sponsor: Rock Fracture project | |
| Description: This project focuses on the relationships between folding, faulting, and fracturing in the Upper Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation, which consists of deep water turbidite deposits in the Magallanes Foreland Basin, in Chilean Patagonia. The study area is located in the Torres Del Paine National Park (photo below), and has a series of folds, thrust faults, and two sets of strike slip faults; one right lateral, and the other left lateral. Our goals for this project are to understand deformation in deep water deposits and to relate it to detailed stratigraphic and sedimentological characterization of the same deposits performed by the Stanford Project On Deep Water Depositional Systems (SPODDS). | |
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